Soap-bubble pipe.



No. 648,89I. Patented May I, I900.

F. B. ABBOT.

SOAP BUBBLE PIPE.

(Application filed June.14, 1899.

(No Model.)

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FREDERIC BRADLEE ABBOT, OF SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOAP-BUBBLE PIPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,891, dated May 1,1900.

Application filed June 14., 1899. Serial No. 720,502. (in model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERIC BRADLEE ABBOT, acitizen of the United States, residing at Sharon, in the county ofNorfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Soap-Bubble Pipes, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to soap-bubble pipes; and its object is to providea simple and inexpensive device of that character having certainfeatures of improvement hereinafter set forth.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure l is a side elevation, partly in section, of a soap-bubble pipeembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the month end of apipe such as shown in Fig. 1, showing also in section an attachmenthereinafter described.

My invention in its preferred form comprises a hollow tube or stem 2,closed at one end, as at 3, and provided with one or more bowls 4. Ihave shown three such bowls in Fig. 1 of the drawings, each consistingof a piece of glass tubing drawn down to a small stem 5 and connectedwith a hollow stem 2 by a flexible connection, such as a short piece ofrubber tubing 6, which at one end is stretched over the stem 5 and atits other end is inserted tightly in a hole bored in the side of thestem 2.

The advantages of the construction just described, in addition to itssimplicity and incxpensiveness, reside in the flexibility of theconnections between the bowls 4 and the stem 2, whereby said bowls arerendered much less likely to be broken than when they are rigidlyattached to the stem, and also in the fact that a knockdown pipe isthereby produced, as the bowls 4 may readily be slipped out of and intothe rubber tubes 6, and the pipe can thus be packed very compactly fortransportation or when not in use.

In connection with the pipe above described I may use an attachment forblowing bubbles full of smoke constructed substantially as follows: Ashort piece of rubber tubing 7 is stretched over the month end of thestem 2, the other end of said tubing being of such size as suitably toreceive and retain a cigarette or small cigar 8, as shown in Fig. 2.Apiece of tubing 9 is provided somewhat longer than the cigarette, asshown, of such size as to fit snugly over the stretched end of therubber tubing 7, by the compression of which it will be firmly held onthe month end of the stem 2 and will form a supplemental mouthpiecetherefor. In blowing bubbles with this attachment the month end of alighted cigarette or small cigar is inserted within the free end of therubber tube 7 and the tube 9 is slipped over the same, as shown in Fig.2. After dipping the bowls 4 bubbles may be blown full of smoke byblowing into the free end of the tube 9, whereby smoke will be driventhrough the cigarette 8 into the stem 2 and into the bubbles, as will beobvious. I claim as my invention- 1. In a soap-bubble pipe, thecombination of a rigid hollow stem with one or more bowls connectedthereto by a piece of flexible tubing of less length than the bowl,whereby each bowl is made practically a part of said stem but isyieldingly connected therewith, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a soap-bubble pipe, a hollow stem, a bowl carried and supported bysaid stem and having a reduced extension, and a flexible connectionbetween said bowl and stem, consisting of a short piece of rubber tubinginserted at one end into said stem and stretched at its other end overthe reduced extension of the bowl, for the purpose set forth.

3. A knockdown soap-bubble pipe, comprising a rigid hollow stem, aplurality of laterally-extending bowls carried and supported by saidstem, and a flexible connection between each of said bowls and saidstem, consisting of a short piece of rubber tubing, into one end ofwhich the bowl is inserted, and inserted at its other end into the stem,all substantially as described.

4. In a soap-bubble pipe, a hollow stem provided with one or more bowls,a piece of rubber tubing stretched over the mouth end of said stem andarranged to receive and hold a In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub.scribed my name this 12th day of June, 1899- FREDERIC BRADLEE ABBOT.

Witnesses:

E. D. CHADWICK, E. B. ToMLINsoN.

